The Writer's Mind with Tyler Mowery

Today I’m looking at some of the interesting things I’ve learned while reading Nassim Taleb’s book Fooled By Randomness.

Why M. Night’s Old Doesn’t Work — I just watched the new Shyamalan film Old. Today I’m going to spoil the entire thing for you as well as talk about why I don’t think it worked. I think there’s a lot of lessons to be learned from this film if you’re a new screenwriter and I want to walk you through some of the issues I noticed.

In this episode I talk about the replication crisis in science and the impact it has on our lives.

Today I read a twitter thread that offers a succinct view on some of the major global issues we have today.

Today I’m looking at some wild US government projects and talking about the implications they have on how we should be viewing the world.

It’s not about how hard you work. It’s about what you work on. People assume that just because you put a lot of hours into something it means you are making progress. But that’s not the case at all. Today I want to talk about leveraging your time and how you can apply it to your writing.

How do you know you’re free? What is freedom really? Is it based upon your nation? Or is it a state of mind? Or something else? Today I look at this question and talk about what my definition of freedom is.

Welcome to the first half of this great conversation with WGA Screenwriter Brooks Elms. We talked about the events in his life that shaped him, the importance of writing, and what new writers should be focusing on as they begin their journey in the industry.

Welcome to part 1 of this interview I did with WGA Screenwriter Dominic Morgan. We talked about his views on the world of writing, why storytelling is important, and the formative events in his life.

It’s time to take a dive into Carl Jung and the unconscious! Jung has some interesting ideas about dreams and their importance as a bridge between our conscious and unconscious minds. Today I want to dive into Jung’s ideas and begin the discussion about his philosophy.